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Issue Details

Issue #431
Published October-November 1952
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "Walter Lantz WOODY WOODPECKER, No. 431". Code number is W.W.O.S. #431-5210. Copyright 1952 by Walter Lantz Productions, Inc. Series continues in "Woody Woodpecker" #16 (December 1952-January 1953), even though Four Color #431 is the 16th Woody Woodpecker issue.

Cover Details - "Walter Lantz Woody Woodpecker"

Characters Woody Woodpecker
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page Woody story "Cleaning the house"

Characters Woody Woodpecker
Synopsis After Woody gets a room spotless, the ceiling plaster falls down.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dick Hall ?
Notes Inside front cover; black and white; pantomime story. Story title and pencils credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

12 page Woody Woodpecker story "Bank bandits"

Characters Woody Woodpecker; Tackhammer
Synopsis Woody gets involved with two bank robbers during their getaway. The robbers convince Woody that they are filming a movie and Woody helps them escape to a mountain hideout. There the truth comes out and Woody has to figure out a way to save himself.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dick Hall
Inks Anahid Dinkjian
Notes Story title and pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

10 page Woody Woodpecker story "A bear in the house"

Characters Woody Woodpecker; Tackhammer
Synopsis Woody's rich Uncle Woodrow sends a letter saying his "Pride and Joy" is coming to live with Woody for a while. Meanwhile a trained bear falls out of the back of a medicine show van near Woody's house. When the bear appears at Woody's door, Woody assumes that he is Uncle Woodrow's "Pride and Joy" and takes him in. The bear proceeds to wreck Woody's house before his owner comes to claim him.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dick Hall
Inks Suzanne Seaborne
Letters Suzanne Seaborne
Notes Story title and pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

10 page Woody Woodpecker story "Wallpapering Tackhammer's house"

Characters Woody Woodpecker; Tackhammer
Synopsis Woody helps his neighbor Tackhammer wallpaper his living room, with predictable results.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dick Hall
Inks Irene Little
Letters Irene Little
Notes Story continues on the inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)